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The biggest moat of Steam is not being greedy assholes.

GOG is doing fine. itch.io is good enough.

Epic is just crap and it shows.

Re:Deshittification Part 2: Bypassing the App Store Gatekeeper on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:35PM (#49884727)
"Under GDPR Article 7(4), consent must be freely given. In plain terms, a company cannot hold a basic service hostage to force you into data collection. If data processing is not strictly necessary to deliver a service, bundling the two together violates EU law."

I'm very curious how it will all unfold with all the cover LG is getting lately. Props for the author!

Cats don't care that much about rats.

"Temporal and Space-Use Changes by Rats in Response to Predation by Feral Cats in an Urban Ecosystem" - https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/a...

Well, there's 24 people still playing it now on Steam
Re:The Mystery of Dark Oxygen on Friday August 21, 2026 @09:49AM (#49388041)
I actually find your comment very useful and therefore upvoted it.
Could you address his arguments rather then himself? A little background doesn't hurt, but let me make up me mind before calling people names.

Also I don't necessarily agree with him, but at no point in the interview a housing market is mentioned.

Original title: " The Economist Who Predicted The 2008 Financial Crash Says The AI Bubble Will Burst Soon | Steve Keen "
Re:The Indo-European Family Tree on Thursday August 13, 2026 @09:13PM (#49293687)
It's quite funny for me, because (from the article) in Slovene the dialect is refered to as "kočevarščina".

I don't know Slovene, but I speak one of the Slavic languages and it sounds to me as "cat's growl".

Not very nice maybe, but we're talking about meanings long lost in time.

We call Germans: "Niemcy" and it comes from the word "niemy", which now means "mute", but used to mean "foreigner" in proto-slavic. We don't think of mutes when meeting Germans tho. We never did.

Of course no ill will intended here. Just a bit of history perhaps.

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